Quotes About Learning

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

When I was your age, television was called books.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.